Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION NEWS

NBC has pulled the plug on the drama The Hunting Party after two seasons, leaving the show with a cliffhanger ending. It is expected that the show will be shopped around to other outlets. (Deadline)

Plans were in development to reboot the Stargate franchise over at Amazon, but the streamer has cancelled those plans. (Variety)

PBS has given The Marlow Murder Club a season four order with returning cast members Samantha Bond (Judith Potts), Cara Horgan (Becks Starling), Jo Martin (Suzie Harris) and Natalie Dew (DI Tanika Malik). (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Rachelle Lefevre and Charlotte Sullivan have joined the cast of the reboot of Little House on the Prairie for its second season on Netflix. The show’s first season will debut on July 9. Lefevre will play Eva Beadle, the town schoolteacher that Mary (Skywalker Hughes) and Laura Ingalls (Alice Halsey) immediately adore. Meanwhile, Sullivan will play Margaret Oleson, mother of Nellie Oleson. (Deadline)

Hugh Laurie has landed a mystery role in the BBC and MGM+ adaptation of Legacy of Spies by author John le Carre. Laurie joins Matthew Macfadyen as legendary spymaster George Smiley, Dan Stevens as the enigmatic Bill Haydon. (Deadline)

Joshua Jackson has joined the Season 3 cast of the Apple TV drama Your Friends & Neighbors, but the only details about what character he will play are being described as “a major recurring role.” (Deadline and TV Line)

MOVIE NEWS

Netflix is moving forward with a sequel to the Alan Ritchson movie War Machine. Ritchson is likely to return for the sequel as well. (Deadline)

Rising star Mason Thames and veteran actor Bill Nighy has joined the John Wick spin-off flick Caine that will be directed by and will star martial arts master and franchise actor Donnie Yen. What roles both actors will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter)

Broadway co-stars Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe will appear in the Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, which will follow an ambitious Army Intelligence officer who’s assigned to investigate a decorated soldier with a mysterious past during the Vietnam War. As surveillance and interrogation deepen, the line between loyalty and obsession blurs, leading both men into a dangerous and uncontrollable connection. (Deadline)

Kelsey Asbille (Yellowstone) will star opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth in the action flick The Kellys that will follow Jack Kelly, a disgraced NYC cop whose wife, Molly, is taken hostage by terrorists inside an old armory building. Subsequently, he’ll have to join forces with the people he fears most to save her: his family. Character details are being kept under wraps, though. (Deadline)

Henry Cavill and Kevin Hart will team up for an untitled spy-action comedy at Netflix from director McG. Based on a short story by Sean Lewis, the film will follow two rival spies who cross paths in a Lamaze class, and whose wives become fast friends. Their double lives subsequently collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways, forcing the two men to reluctantly become confidantes and partners on the road to fatherhood. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!